The collective of agricultural workers poisoned by pesticides, including chlordecone, used in West Indian banana plantations until 1993, initiated this project. Inauguration this week, within the Martinique University Hospital, of the regional center for occupational and environmental pathologies.
Here, caregivers treat illnesses such as diabetes and prostate cancer. 70% of patients admitted to the emergency room suffer from an illness linked to the environment, explains Professor Dabor Risière, speaking to Christine Cupit from Martinique la 1ere.
Examine pesticide use near you
This has been possible in France for two years, thanks to Adonis, an interactive map available online. A map which has extended for several days to the overseas departments, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Mayotte and Reunion.
Reunion: 60,000 tonnes of waste from REP sectors in 2023
Textiles, tires, automobile oil… Almost 60,000 tonnes of waste from EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) sectors were collected last year, in Reunion, i.e. + 7% compared to 2022. And next year, the SICR , the department’s import and trade union, SICR, wants to see the emergence of a new lithium-ion battery recycling sector, that of electric vehicles. Philippe Rebboah, president of the SICR with our colleagues from Réunion la 1ere.
New Caledonia: march for environmental protection
They walked Saturday morning to raise awareness about environmental protection. Demonstration organized by the inhabitants of the Nang and Kirinata tribes, on the island of Lifou, in New Caledonia. An island where the water table is the only source of drinking water. Report from New Caledonia the 1st, Clarisse Xowie Watue.
New Caledonia where the Congress of the independence party the Caledonian Union, the main component of the FLNKS, is being held this weekend. On the agenda: the institutional future of the territory and the organization of provincial elections on Caillou next year.
